Crap Nullpointer Exceptions

So, I got back into town in time for poetry night, and, for once, I am not impressed. Glen was, as usual, good, and after him went this dude that was going up for the fist time, thusly deserving some slack.  Now, however, there is a ‘guest’ that is ‘rapping’, and I must admit that I am not at all enjoying it.  Normally, I’m not a huge rap fan, anyway (with several very notable exceptions).  This time, it’s some girl that isn’t even in time, much less putting out anything really original or even marginally inspired.

<Rant>If you don’t like/want systemd (and I think most distros will wind up with it eventually) then don’t use Fedora 15.  Don’t go shouting on the Devel list about how it shouldn’t be installed by default.</rant>

Now that my anoyances are out of the way, on to SELF.  I reckon I’ll break it down to what I liked:

1. All the cloud stuff.  That will be useful for QAing F16, and that alone is enough for me to have gone.
2. Networking.  I met up with a couple of KDE devs (one of whom also does embedded and alternative architectures, in which I also have interest) that has gotten me to install KDE.  There’s some cool stuff there since the last time I messed with it.  I’ll admit, it’s been a while.  That said, I still prefer Fluxbox in terms of workflow.
3. The Genetics talk was supremely interesting.  I would very much like to learn more on the subject, and may at some point dabble in the code some.
4. I missed Spot’s talk because I was networking, but that was cool (see 2 above; I also talked about real estate (random)).
5. Helping folks understand how Fedora works was decidedly win.
6. Speevan back was fracking awesome, except for the hangover.

There really wasn’t too much I disliked except the aforementioned hangover, but since that was self-inflicted, I can’t complain, can I?  I also managed to bomb my kernel on Friday morning, but it wasn’t difficult to fix (those that were there know what I did).

I tried to introduce Ryan Rix to grits, but he was supremely uninterested.  I consider that the fail of the weekend.

j_dulaney